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â€œIâ€™m proud of you for doing this.â€ Those were my Dear Husbandâ€™s words to me the other day. Stunned and confused I scratched my head wondering what was there to be proud of.
Iâ€™d just finished â€œThe Captainâ€™s Man.â€ I had locked myself in the Writing Wroom and worked until I typed â€œThe End.â€ Exhausted but proud I moved on to edits for my first completed novella â€œAzrael.â€ I picked up the manuscript to discover the words I had lovingly put on the page were all crap. I have to rewrite the whole darn thing.
Downtrodden and crushed, I trudged on to fill out my schedule for rewrites, edits and work on new ideas as well as blog posts. I just kept on going. You know what? It just kind of hit me. That was it. That is why the DH was proud of me. I didnâ€™t and havenâ€™t given up.
Now as we all know. Being a writer isnâ€™t easy. First of all, self-discipline is king. If you canâ€™t depend on yourself to write a certain number of words a day or week, you can kiss those dreams of writing for big bucks goodbye. There are target dates to meet, deadlines to overcome and lots and lots of unspoken rules and regulations to learn. Commit a faux-pas in an elevator pitch to the wrong agent and youâ€™re screwed. But you have to do it, learn it, live it and breathe it to succeed.
Next, you have to have skin thicker than the earthâ€™s crust. Forget critique partners, Iâ€™m harder on myself than my English teacher father. Youâ€™ve got to dig through your own mistakes and not only correct them, but teach yourself new ways of writing. Then you realize that it doesnâ€™t end. You are constantly learning through critiques, reading other novels, classes and the like.
Even then, there is no guarantee that youâ€™ll sell that giant manuscript. It could languish for months or years before itâ€™s ever picked up. Sometimes it isnâ€™t picked up and youâ€™re faced with either letting it go or self publishing. You just have to keep going. You have to keep writing. You have to keep your dream alive knowing that the creation of a story is what really makes you happy.

And thatâ€™s what Iâ€™m doing. Iâ€™m keeping on keeping on. That is truly something to be proud of, for me.